corrupted file from download, not recoverable without messing about

[Ian Jackson]

I was testing an install produced from the edgy 20061024 i386 dvd. I decided to tell the machine to hibernate while synaptic was downloading the packages files for Universe; I restarted the machine a few minutes later, and as expected the download resumed.

However one of the Packages files was corrupted. The only way I was able to restore the situation was to delete the file myself from /var/lib/apt/lists/partial.

Furthermore, libadns1-bin was not available for installation afterwards, suggesting further problems. Note that I chose to install libadns1-bin while ubiquity was running in the livecd making the install in question; that may be relevant.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I tag this for beta, what apt should do is to delete files in partial that can't be uncompressed

[Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)]

Bringing milestone forward

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I tried today to reproduce what might cause the failure and I was unable to reproduce it. The code should ensure that file that are invalid gets deleted.

Here is the testcode I used to corrupt a half downloaded .gz file (for my own later reference):
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
import sys
atime = os.stat(sys.argv[1])[7]
mtime = os.stat(sys.argv[1])[8]
d = open(sys.argv[1],"r").read()
s="xxxx"
s += d[4:]
open(sys.argv[1],"w").write(s)
os.utime(sys.argv[1], (atime, mtime))

Cheers,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This should be fixed in my bzr archive now. The file in partial/ will be deleted if there is a error on decompression.

[Marco Rodrigues (gothicx)]

Not yet fix released with apt 7 on gutsy ?